Pretty impressive

2007-11-02: Nice article about the organizational structure at cisco, and how they paid for their collaboration tools by cutting travel budgets

“This will shock you. The other day I started the morning with my top staff in India. Then I went to Japan and a meeting with Fujitsu, then on to Cleveland, then London and a meeting with BT. The whole trip took only 3.5 hours, and I was far more effective in the calls.” The reason: Chambers was traveling, of course, over Cisco’s latest gee-whiz product: telepresence, a high-def, life-sized, Internet-based communications system that is to traditional video-conferencing what the latest big-screen surround-sound plasma extravaganza would be to Grandma’s black-and-white set with rabbit ears. “When I asked the team to design this, I said, ‘Make it like Star Trek. You know, Beam me up, Scotty.'”

2008-05-28: Holy crap indeed.

The ‘Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Experience’ was an ambitious collaboration between Cisco and Musion Systems. Musion seamlessly integrated their 3D holographic display technology with Cisco’s TelePresence’s system to create the world’s first real time virtual presentation.

2023-03-03: This whole area has not developed as quickly as hoped. Perhaps because regular video is good enough? Or because most people haven’t even tried video pre-pandemic. Anyway, here’s a late 2022 state of Google Starline. The person in charge of this space has since left, pointing to an AR / VR winter to come.

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